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Topic
Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Block chain size/storage and slow downloads for new users
by
DeathAndTaxes
on 22/05/2014, 15:39:56 UTC
2% fee's will solve all the BTC problems: slow-confirmation-risk, seller-risk, etc. Mom&Pop will use it. *Not* because BTC is so great but because there is no reason not to use it (a bit like PayPal).

With a 2% fee there is absolutely no reason to use it.  Merchants gain nothing but added complexity and expense.  They can simply keep using PayPal.  The largest advantage for merchants is a significant boost to their net margins by the removal of the 2% overhead by bypassing the credit card network.  It makes no sense to bypass the credit card network to pay the same amount in fees to a different third party.  Merchant adoption would be essentially zero.